I have a book to recommend. It questions everything you think you know about women, about marriage, class, justice, rage. All right. I got to come clean and tell you that is how I would introduce this ...

The parallels between Susanna Hoffs and Jane Start — the protagonist in Hoffs’ forthcoming debut novel This Bird Has Flown — are initially quite striking. Both are creative, well-educated women ...

Lamb’s Players Theatre’s upcoming “Jane Eyre”-themed production is not to be confused with Paul Gordon and John Caird’s Broadway musical drama that enjoyed a pre-Broadway tryout at La Jolla Playhouse ...

Age eight, I recall the day my father, raising his brow and curling his lip craned his neck toward my ear as I sat atop his lap. As though a gentle wind was passing, he whispered the most resounding ...

Well, friends, I have finally found a book to wrench me from my romance-reading streak. For several months (years?) now, I have been reading almost nothing but romance with a few fantasy books thrown ...

This novel might be called "James Bond Meets Harry Potter in the Twilight Zone." In fact, the reader plays "name that literary reference" through most of this zany work, where characters wander around ...

Charlotte Brontë and Eve Sinclair. St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-03270-6 Rather than an all-out retelling, Sinclair’s mashup reads more like Victorian erotica with ...

The podcast "On Eyre" asks the question: Does the novel 'Jane Eyre' still have something to impart to modern readers? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with one of the podcast's co-hosts, Vanessa Zoltan.